Just add it to our Wishlist thread: http://www.riovolution.org/thread/310 I'm not sure if Defector actually reads the wishlist thread, but some stuff in there has mysteriously appeared in the recent firmware updates.

Cool. Saw that. You articulated it 1,000 times better than I would have.

Don't know if it would've helped, but the Karma had a Stereo Separation feature, that basically turned stereo into mono piped through both ear-phones. The idea was to make a lot of old Beatles tunes less jarring.